‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages – podcast

The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs

By Erin Maglaque. Read by Lanna Joffrey

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• Adapted from Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body, published by Jonathan Cape

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